[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#612264: Bug#612264: tk-tile and tk colliding dir

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

severity 612264 normal
thanks

I'm reducing the severity of this bug because I tried to
install/remove/reinstall in various order tk-tile and tk-dev
without problems. So the issue could be due to some odd setup
on the original box. While investigating the problem there,
it is better changing the severity, indeed.

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:41:11AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:01:40PM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Francesco Paolo Lovergine
> > <frankie at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Package: tcl-dev
> > > Version: 8.4.16-2
> > > Severity: serious
> > >
> > > Unpacking replacement tcl-dev ...
> > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcl-dev_8.5.0-2_all.deb (--unpack):
> > >  trying to overwrite '/usr/include/tcl', which is also in package tk-tile 0.8.2-2.1
> > > configured to not write apport reports
> > > Processing triggers for man-db ...
> > 
> > /usr/include/tcl in tcl-dev is a symlink to /usr/include/tcl8.5
> > currently. I think that it's
> > better to keep it this way. So, I'd treat this bug as a tk-tile bug.
> > 
> 
> Uhm, one would not expect tk-tile or any other non-core tcl package has to
> manage /usr/include/tcl. Instead it is expected the default tcltk
> package is able to cope with transitioning without glitches. So I'm not
> sure if some counter-measure should be instead adopted there...
> 

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Francesco P. Lovergine